By Kenny Kuhn | WWL Radio | November 9, 2020 The New Orleans crime statistics are out and they do not look good. According the President of The Metropolitan Crime Commission, Rafael Goyeneche, violent crime have spiked in the city of New Orleans. “Particularly, shootings, and homicides, and carjackings, so those are some of the…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | November 9, 2020 Newell talks to Rafael Goyeneche from Metropolitan Crime Commission about disturbing trends emerging in New Orleans’ crime data sets Press play below to listen to full interview
By James Gill | NOLA.com | November 8, 2020 The big question in New Orleans DA’s races used to be who would do a better job of locking ’em up and throwing away the key. In those good old days, the best way to whip the public into a fury was to explain that some…
By Mike Perlstein/Eyewitness Investigator | WWL-TV | November 5, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — After 32 defendants were previously indicted as street-level scammers over the past year, the sprawling federal investigation into staged truck accidents has led to its first criminal charge against an attorney. New Orleans attorney Daniel Patrick Keating, 51, faces one count of…
Thursday, November 5, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the Indictment of DANNY PATRICK KEATING, Jr., age 51, of New Orleans, Louisiana, who was charged in a one-count federal indictment with Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | November 4, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) –“You’re looking at an almost 50 percent turnover in the court,” Rafael Goyeneche said. Six of the 13 N.O. Criminal Court Judges are newly elected. In Section L, Angel Harris beat incumbent Franz Ziblilich. In Section D, Kimya Holmes wins. In Section E, Rhonda Goode-Douglas…
By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator | WWL | November 4, 2020 The change in plea would seem to indicate that one or both are now prepared to plead guilty in the case. Grammy-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his business partner are scheduled to be rearraigned next Tuesday, indicating one or both of them are…
Travers Mackel/Chris Slaughter | WDSU | November 2, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — Is a race for judge in New Orleans being improperly held? State law seems to indicate that’s what’s happening. Here’s why. Back in 2014 the state Legislature in Baton Rouge, under a directive from then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu, agreed to downsize the number of…
By Jim Mustain and Lester Duhé | Associated Press/WAFB | October 30, 2020 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A Black trooper with the Louisiana State Police was on a break when his cellphone buzzed with an unusual voice message. It was from a white colleague, unaware his Apple Watch had recorded him, blurting out the Black trooper’s name followed by…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | October 23, 2020 Click for video NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – The City of New Orleans is requesting relief from court orders to build a new jail building, and do away with a temporary facility that now sits behind the main jail building. The 89-bed facility is…